My dad and I called yesterday. 11:30. We're hoping to get there early for BP and maybe snag some autographs. We're not autograph guys, but it seems like a perfect opportunity--we're close to the dugout, exhibition game, we'll be wearing their gear in another park...

"Genius is not replicable. Inspiration, though, is contagious, and multiform — and even just to see, close up, power and aggression made vulnerable to beauty is to feel inspired and (in a fleeting, mortal way) reconciled."
--David Foster Wallace, () "Roger Federer as Religious Experience"